Negro handyman admits killing couple in lovers' mill
Joseph Luther Woolridge confessed to killing Russell Koontz and Mrs. Kenneth Coleman at an old stone mill after finding them during a lovers' rendezvous. He described striking Koontz with a window weight and tying Coleman before disposing of the bodies in a pit. Police traced footprints to Woolridge after a car crash exposed bootprints.
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Bloomington
Ind
Russell E. Koontz
Kenneth Coleman
Indianapolis
Joseph Luther Woolridge
Woolridge
Koontz
Fie
Hal B. Rayburn
Monroe County
Noble Sisco
Joseph
Robert McCrae
Indiana Boys’ School
McCrae
Heat Put on Democrats in Housing Duel
The Democratic party launches an eleventh hour bid to salvage the housing program for veterans as Republicans press for Bowles resignation. Leaders warn Congress that defeating the bill endangers 2,700,000 homes for veterans, while Bowles Wyatt Porter Small and Wirtz urge support against inflationary pressure groups. Taft calls Bowles' leadership egotistical and urges resignation.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
Capitol Hill
Robert Hannegan
Truman
House
Administration
Hannegan
Economic Front
Congress
Bowles
Gougers
Wilson W. Wyatt
Wyatt
OPA
Paul Porter
John D. Small
W. Willard Wirtz
Wage Stabilization Board
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Arbitration Refused by CNN and Looming Phone Strike
New York report says Henry Mayer representing telephone workers unions announced a nationwide strike will begin at 6 am Thursday as major labor disputes with General Motors and AT&T falter. UAW demands 19.5 cents hourly raise while GM backs 18.5 cents with arbitration rejected. About 800000 idle in stoppages.
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CNN
New York
INS
Henry Mayer
CIO
United Auto Workers
General Motors Corporation
UAW
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
James F. Dewey
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
John J. Moran
Long Lines Telephone Workers
Independent
National Federation of Telephone Workers
A. T
A. T. and
T. Sunday
Moran
23 Die As Airliner Crashes In California Mountains
A Dallas to San Diego American Airlines DC-3 crashed into Mt Laguna amid fog and blizzard conditions. 23 passengers and four crew were killed, including two babies. Rescue efforts struggled through subfreezing weather as recovery continued.
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San Diego
Calif
American Airlines
Dallas
New York
Mt. Laguna
Here
Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Virginia
Navy
Coast Guard
Forrest Cady Dies in Blaze
Cedar Rapids report confirms Forrest Bill Cady 53, former Boston Red Sox catcher and umpire, died in an Allision hotel room fire. Coroner says accidental death by suffocation and carbon monoxide. heater sparked flames after he apparently fell asleep. Fire confined to his room. funeral arrangements pending.
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Cedar Rapids
Forrest
Bill” Cady
Boston Red Sox
Allison Hotel
T. Frank Hersch
Linn County
Cady
Hersch
Dr. Hersch
Harley Simon
Dale Cunningham
Illinois
Babe Ruth
Ruth
Red Sox
Phillies
Tucson
Ariz
Barta-Hesser Funeral
King tabled report on Soviet leakage of U.S. troop data
Ottawa Prime Minister Mackenzie King released a royal commission report detailing Soviet embassy staff and four individuals accused of secretly passing information to the USSR. The cases involve requests for U.S. troop movements and atomic bomb details, with Zabotin cited as the Soviet attache.
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Ottawa
W. L. Mackenzie King
Moscow
Europe
United States
Pacific
Royal Investigating Commission
King
United States Army
United States Ninth Army
Col
Nicoli Zabotin
Zabotin
Italy
Canada
Royal Commission
U.S.S.R
Senate Labor Panel Rejects Case Anti-Strike Bill
Senate labor committee declined to approve the Case bill imposing penalties for union contract violations and picket line violence. Chairman Murray proposed sending the House measure to the floor without amendments, while signaling a subcommittee study of Case and related proposals.
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Washington
LLP
Senate Labor Committee
House
Murray
D-Mont
Ball
R-Minn
McMahon
D-Conn
Ellender
D-La
San Francisco Honolulu speed record set by Pan American Clipper
The Pan American Constellation Clipper set a new San Francisco to Honolulu transport speed record. The 43 passenger plane completed the flight in nine hours and 43 minutes, achieved Sunday.
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Honolulu
Sns
San Francisco
Condemned G I Escapes Recaptured in Geisha House
Pfc Joseph E Hirswa of Wallington New Jersey awaits a War Department ruling on death for killing two Japanese civilians after escaping Yokohama stockade. He was recaptured in a Geisha house with Kirby Willis of San Francisco and Yoshitakato the Japanese accomplice. Military police traced the escape after a rope and hook method lowered them from an 18 foot wall.
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Tokyo
Joseph E. Hirswa
Wallington
N. J
War Department
Hicswa
Yokohama
Washington
Hirswa
Kirby Willis
San Francisco
Yoshitakato
Clarence J. Staples
Blackwell
Okla
Pfc
Elton Ca
Red Cross Campaign Opens With $9200 Reported
Scattered preliminary reports to Red Cross headquarters show $9,200 received toward an $86,500 county goal by noon. Campaign chairman Reginald B. Figge notes the drive aims for a whirlwind finish by Friday and urges all reports in by Wednesday or Thursday. Canteen corps fed auditors and volunteers at noon.
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Red Cross
Reginald B. Figge
Figge
Mannerheim resigns as Finland’s president
HELSINKI UP Marshal Carl Gustav von Mannerheim has signed as president of Finland. He went to Portugal for health reasons and had been ill since returning weeks earlier. He is 79.
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Helsinki
Carl Gustav von Mannerheim
Finland
Mannerheim
Portugal
Rains Predicted Across Iowa Statewide Weather Outlook
Cedar Rapids enjoyed a warm spell with a Sunday high of 68 before a Monday dip. Rain was forecast to spread from the south and west tonight and become general by Tuesday, with temperatures cooling from 41 in Cedar Rapids to 37 by 9 am.
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Cedar Rapids
U S Receipts top February spending
The Treasury reported February receipts exceeded outlays by 168.23 million dollars, ending a 47 month deficit streak. Despite the surplus the fiscal year deficit reached over 19.5 billion, with the national debt at a record 279.76 billion dollars. Analysts cited sales of government obligations as a major factor.
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Washington
Treasury
Egyptians in Egypt Riots Kill and Injure Dozens
In Cairo and Alexandria anti British rioting erupts amid a nationwide general strike mourning Egyptians killed in last month disorders. Reports say 10 killed and 170 injured in Alexandria gun battles while preliminary counts differ.
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Cairo
Egypt
Alexandria
United Press
Britain Asks Reds Explain Iran Stand
London reports a British foreign office note to Moscow asks the Soviet government to explain its refusal to withdraw troops from northwestern Iran under the British Russian Iranian treaty. The note was sent before Bevin’s cabinet meeting and copied to Washington, with continued U.S. consultation expected.
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London
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Russia
Iran
Frank Roberts
Moscow
State Department
Washington
Ernest Bevin
Roberts
United States
United States State Department
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Gordon Lunan
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National Research Council
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